Opinion: Drought doom paralyzed California. Now, we’re dumping water into the ocean.
A wet month or two triggers something in California under our current political landscape, a landscape that has been mostly unchanged for four decades. What is triggered is the reset to ensure California remains in a drought. Coupled with some of the greatest water infrastructure in history built to capture water in order to supply our population and feed it, comes water managers, political leaders, and laws who manage its flow. Only in California can you have the ability to save several years’ worth of water demand, be fortunate enough to have it met by Mother Nature, and have your fellow man waste it all. The releasing of water last month brought a bit more of an outcry from the public than we are used to hearing.
-Written by columnist Wayne Western Jr.